Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I

words removed
74,710
marks left
18,881
words a sentence
17.2
most used mark
,

Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: Meditations, Marcus Aurelius. More twins

Edmund Spenser on the shelf

It's the only book by Edmund Spenser on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Edmund Spenser's punctuation is closest to Marcus Aurelius's.

Marcus Aurelius's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons11.17.2
Commas130.376.6
Colons7.91.6
Exclamation marks0.02.8
Question marks3.03.7
Words per sentence17.217.0
Dialogue1%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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